Hyderabad: Why no focus on this?

Hyderabad, July 13: Its the identical story every year badly repaired, poorly laid and maintained roads that worsen completely during the monsoon months and cause redundant deaths of travelers for which no one is held charged with.

The mediocre road repair work carried out by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is most in a deposition during the monsoon months but this has not obliged the civic body to change its ways.

Do you know:

1. On July 7, 30-year-old Jadhav Sunita fell off her two-wheeler when the vehicle hit a pothole and skidded and she was crushed under a truck.

2. On April 17, 35-year-old Vishal Nathani lost his life after his bike hit a pothole and he was crushed by an RTC bus at Narayanaguda. The civic body repaired the pothole within hours of the accident.

"Though there are many potholes in our area, the authorities have filled only this one, where the accident happened. If all these potholes are filled carefully by the authorities before it's too late, then many accidents can be avoided," said a resident of Narayanguda.

This spontaneous reaction of the GHMC is obvious in the laying of the road at Shyam Karan in Ameerpet near the residence of Kansas hate-crime victim Sharth Koppu.

Due to the attention, this incident got, the street got a facelift overnight as several politicians gathered here to soothe the parents.

However, the citizens have taken to Twitter demanding to know why repairs are not done before the start of the monsoon season.

According to data from Union Ministry of Roads, there were 138 deaths caused by vehicles falling into potholes in Telangana alone in 2015.

M Srinivas, who lives in Dilshuknagar, marks to the general lack of maintenance of city roads that turn them into death traps. "It is pure negligence on the part of the GHMC officials," he says.

In Monovikas Nagar in Secunderabad, road work has left the road in a pathetic condition.

Mission Bhagiratha and other underground drainage pipeline works are ongoing in the area for one-and-a-half years. Suraj Kumar who lives in Monovikas Nagar said driving has become very difficult for the colony's residents.